cadge
vt.& vi. <英非正>乞討,乞得,索取
If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it.
Can I cadge a cigarette?...
能不能給我支菸?
He could cadge a ride from somebody.
他可以請求別人搭他一程。
1. ask for and get free; be a parasite
2. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling;
on the cadge
(非正式)尋找免費獲得某物的機會
Could I cadge a lift with you?
我能順便坐你的汽車 嗎 ?
May I cadge a cigarette from you?
我可以向你要支香菸 嗎 ?
I managed to cadge some money off my dad.
我設法從我父親那裡要了一些錢.
Poor old uncle Tompson used to cadge some money for cigarettes from me.
可憐的湯普森大叔從前常常從我這裡討些錢買香菸抽.
Just cupboard love ; they were always cadge from her money, food furniture, anything and everything.
他們是有所圖的. 他們老是來向他要東西,要錢, 要吃的東西,要傢俱, 什麼東西都要.